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A feminist critique of the climate change discourse.
Charkiewicz, Ewa
Charkiewicz, Ewa
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"Global ecology and global markets interact in a number of ways, to the point that nowadays the two are mutually indistinguishable. On the one hand, the global expansion of markets increases demand for resources and puts more pressure on the integrity of ecosystems, one result being global climate change. On the other hand, measures to address climate change rely on market instruments for environmental policy. Cap-and trade measures contribute to the creation of new virtual financial markets. Today, the neoclassical model of the market is also offered as a compelling conceptual model for thinking about solutions to the problems of environmental degradation. [...] The expansion of the concept of the care economy to include relationships with nature opens up new possibilities for linking feminist and environmental agendas. In this short piece, I will show how the relationships between nature and human reproduction have been captured by a neo-liberal biopolitics and discuss the possibilities for strategic interventions in the current global conjuncture.", p. 18,19
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2009-10
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